Word: hopelessness
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...novelist is to be judged by the vitality of his characters, Lewis should not be found wanting by that perverse minority of posterity that may still read books. Carol Kennicott is still with us, fighting her hopeless battle against the village virus in many a drowsy hamlet still untouched by TV. Elmer Gantry now brays at us from the loudspeaker over a national hook-up . . . And in some hidden laboratory, the incorruptible young Dr. Arrowsmith is now busy tracking down the clue to cancer or polio...
...presented the West with the heartening proposition that what it had to do it could do. He had rejected pessimism and the hopeless statistics which proved that Europe is licked. No other man could have said it and been believed by so many different people and parties and governments. In the disconsolate winter of 1951, the Western world heard a first, heartwarming note of spring...
...They also cherish and promote the all-but-hopeless view that Bacon wrote Shakespeare...
During Finland's gallant, hopeless "winter war" of 1939-40, Kallio traded his knife for a bayonet, went after the Russian invaders as a private. His father, Kyösti Kallio, was President of Finland...
TIME Correspondent Enno Hobbing recently toured Iran, strategic key to the whole region. The following report on its sorry-but not hopeless-condition is based on Robbing's report...